skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree with you that it's incredibly bizarre, but I associate it with the strange cultural norms that can only crop up in very specific academic environments that have just the right alchemy of academic strangeness, competitiveness, and idiosyncratic historical origin. I'll compare it to something I recently discovered, which is some viral video I recently saw of some sort of pig fare where kids lead pigs out on this walk to show how well the pigs are trained and I think to show off the pigs as models specimens, and the kids do this intentional intense eye contact with judges in order to get the judges to look at them. It seems so strange and abnormal, but it was explained away as just something that's part of the history of the competition and having strategic value for being effective in the competition.

I've seen videos of the college debates you're speaking of though, and I've definitely felt that they're badly in need of reforms that either impose a word count or otherwise disincentivize speed reading.

The long and short of that is just to say you can explain it without regarding it as some sort of intentional state disinformation program. I would also say I find that especially implausible just because, while I don't love the practice, I don't think it degrades our ability to follow arguments or have information literacy necessarily, and meanwhile modern social media absolutely does seem to instill habits that reinforce short-term attention spans, disjointed thinking, object permanence problems and the like, all of which would dispose people to be more receptive to bite-size arguments that don't have to fit into a comprehensive or coherent worldview.
ITER is a considerably more complex research device, designed and developed to generate and study burning plasma. It is also the first device of it's kind intended to do this. It is an entirely uncontroversial issue that the first version of literally anything is comparatively expensive compared to the costs of subsequent ones.

This is a problem the US Navy is intimately familiar with when it comes to shipbuilding as it is currently experiencing with it's next generation aircraft carrier design.

It is incredible though to see people saying that the ITER design is "obsolete" when the actual proposed replacement technologies have ongoing papers trying to move towards practical deployment as recently literally this year.

EDIT: It is worth nothing that I could be wrong in the end if the SPARC project succeeds[1], but there's a pretty heavy asterisk on that since ITER is amongst other things, a research project - the plasma physics modelling, supporting fusion research, even manufacturing and magnet winding research and other miscellaneous construction processes are all public knowledge which is shared amongst participating nations. It's been the only game in town for decades, and no one was wrong to try and build a fusion reactor 3 decades ago when it was as desperately needed then as it is even more so now.

[1] https://www.psfc.mit.edu/sparc
I used it for a Smalltalk-80 VM back then when it was the obvious/only choice.
Yep. That's why there are multiple distributions of the Linux Distribution Chooser.

https://distrochooser.de/

https://distrochooser.snehit.dev/

https://librehunt.org/
The peculiar origins of the performance review and other HR bureaucracy
Absolutely not. Why would it be?
Toml is great for simple use-cases. For complex ones you have the same problem that yaml has: Templating a language with significant whitespace via text substitution is a horrible horrible idea. Somehow this sad state of affairs has become industry standard.
hmm, that's disappointing! are there in fact missing quotes and mismatched curly braces in those files? i wonder if you got a corrupted copy of the compiler
It isn’t an attack to say that something comes off as condescending. It’s an observation that it comes off that way. It was also a good faith effort to invite you to understand that observation, because I didn’t think that was your intent.

I didn’t accuse you of creating a sock puppet account. I observed that the other response came from a newly created account, with that single comment posted about the same time. That observation wasn’t addressed to you, it was addressed to that new account.
Apple has a patent on it: https://www.patentlyapple.com/2022/10/apple-invents-a-new-he...
> There may be some false negatives of course, but in terms of keeping the klan from high positions in your institution, this sort of thing seems to work.

You've highlighted exactly the problem so many people have with these DEI statements in the first place. If people have some (IMO valid) disagreements about what DEI has become, they're basically bucketed in with "the klan". So instead, people just shut up and tell reviewers what they know they want to hear, and this ideological litmus test becomes the norm.
ya'know, everytime there's a post with react in the title, I open it with the best positive attitude I can muster, holding back my knee jerk reaction.

I then read it, and come out thinking "why, why, why do people put up with this absurdity?" and always stop at the same conclusion, cz they don't know any better.

I then quietly move on with my life, sometimes leaving such comments as hints to those who might catch on.
Yes I read this as well but feel like I missed a lot. Can someone explain what they got from this?
The marvel of the Manhattan project, including Hanford and Oak ridge, was the singular focus and short time scale but not necessarily the absolute size.

If we consider just ASML, (the main) supplier of only the EUV machines (and accessories) for manufacturing chips (they don't run the fabs, they just build and maintain the equipment), they also directly employ 42,000 people and utilize another 5,000 tier 1 suppliers. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASML_Holding

That's just the ONE business to make the machines to make the chips, that doesnt include all the folks who make the chips! If we count just one of their customers (TSMC) that's another 70,000+ employees!

National projects are impressive for different reasons than whole industries.
> nearly everybody agrees that it's a good target to aim for

You mean nearly everybody agrees in your circle, because you can easily find strong opposition if you bother to look. And that’s after making saying the opposite out loud a career-ending offense in lots of places, kinda hard to not agree with it if you want to remain employable.
It wasn't, but we're comparing to the yearly budget of Manhattan/Apollo (as a fraction of GDP). NASA budget was between 0.3-0.9% of GDP in 1963-1970[0], that was per year. In 1965 GDP was $743B (nominal), so 0.5% of that is ~4B, and the (nominal) cost of Apollo (which wasn't the whole NASA budget) was 25B.

As aa part of GDP from 1970 (1.073T) the total cost of Apollo would be like 4% of that single year's GDP. Not a good comparison because when Apollo started GDP was 563B and was 1.3T when it ended.

[0] https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Total-NASA-Appropriation...
When you look at how long it’s been around versus where Xf86/x.org were on a similar timeline… yeah, we’re almost halfway through the life of the project, if history repeats itself. Its replacement may be expected to start designating it “legacy” and its boosters sneering at out-of-touch Wayland users well inside a decade.

(It fares better compared against x11 instead, but not as much-better as one might guess—either way, it’s been a sloooow moving project)
I have no idea which side you're on (I'm not parsing the thread for that) but your comments are standing out as particularly bad flamewar. Please stop.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

p.s. In case anyone's worried about this - if there are other accounts behaving this badly who have not been moderated yet, the reason is that we haven't seen them. You can help by flagging the comments or letting us know about them at hn@ycombinator.com.
> How would you coerce or incentivize the developers of this DE to work on a more mature project?

Being a cog in a wheel is always a sacrifice, but also more successful. It’s more likely to be usable by regular people and overall more likely to be used.

The biggest problem with desktop Linux is it’s a fragmentation of unpolished projects, many of which overlapping each other.
Apartheid South Africa also tried to ban news media. It's a sign of extreme desperation and signals political vulnerability. Hopefully, Israel will get elections soon, and center- or left-leaning coalition government will pursue different foreign and military policies that a significant majority of Israelis prefer over the absurdity of the militarists and militant settlers.

https://truthout.org/articles/media-and-the-end-of-apartheid...

EDIT: Haaretz is a good and honest news source that has been extremely critical of the current leadership. Also recommended documentary film: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gatekeepers_(film)
Microsoft intentionally and specifically suffocated BeOS. That was not luck.
There are CVEs where an empty string performed an authentication bypass.

> social engineering

The best bugdoors are deniable.
The article indicates the 45 days can be renewed. Presumably repeatedly.
Lets hope it doesn't dim our sun...
The best OTel docs I've seen have been from observability vendors. The CNCF needs some volunteer technical writers or something. I think a lot of those docs suffer from being written by people who know the spec inside and out.
I think when people say this, they are mistaking requirements of banks and/or their state government for 'US' laws.

The use of cars in the US is almost entirely unregulated by the US government. And for the requirements imposed by state authorities, many of them are implemented as prerequisites for registration, not for ownership.
> I'm always amazed by the quality and craft of works produced in the periods before roughly the 1960s.

Yeesh. This statement is not defensible.

The fifties-era cookie cutter houses were pretty bad (but at least they moved past using coal and gaslight and knob and tube wiring and so on). The quality of passenger cars has only ever trended upward, with a dip during the combined energy crunch and inflation of the seventies that was remedied pretty quickly. The sixties ushered in the era of solid-state consumer electronics.
Northern Telecom - 2013

Alcatel-Lucent - 2016 (Bell Labs/AT&T Technologies/Western Electric)
What’s absurd about it? What’s a better option in your opinion? Asking as someone who mostly knows the React approach
So what should they be using, if they did know better?
These are all facts coming from publicly available information, such as the Llama 3 paper and recent interviews. I'd dig up the specific timestamps, but I'm working at the moment and can't spend the next hour scrolling through long interviews.

The interviews are:

"Mark Zuckerberg - Llama 3, $10B Models, Caesar Augustus, & 1 GW Datacenters": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bc6uFV9CJGg

"Yann Lecun: Meta AI, Open Source, Limits of LLMs, AGI & the Future of AI | Lex Fridman Podcast #416 ": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5t1vTLU7s40

The total FLOPS used in training is in bunch of places, I can't find a good link at the moment.
Just wait until they look at Bitcoin transactions. Spoiler alert, it's completely manipulated - vast majority of volume comes from wash trading with Tether on shady exchanges
Rust vs. Swift
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38562946

https://www.cnn.com/2024/01/04/business/carrefour-france-pep...
I really want to like kdeconnect because when it does work, it works well, but in my experience it just has way too many bugs and seems to randomly stop working for unknown reasons.
AFAIK Signal usernames didn't exist in 2020.
Yeah and Jobs co-founded Apple with Wozniak. Wozniak was instrumental to Apple's initial success but clearly it was Jobs who took it to the mat. Same with Gates/Allen, by their IPO in 1986 it was billg at the helm and Paul Allen doing something else.
It is though? https://github.com/kern/filepizza
Prompt engineering is not engineering and it’s not hard, LLM ops is not ops if you are using OpenAI (which the question states you are using). If your solution has code for rag & prompts + a saas boiler plate, you have no moat. Whatever you have is already or will be eaten by openai itself (Altman keeps saying that as well).

(Still assuming you are using OpenAI) if your solution implementation has 2% prompts and AI specific stuff and 98% other functionality while AI is still central to your solution then you have possibly a moat. Seems existing systems adding AI are long term AI money makers.
> "From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free"

For several decades, Israel's Likud party (currently in power) election manifesto was...

"From the river to the sea, there will be only Israeli sovereignty".

Perhaps that's where the Palestinians got it?

"Palestine will be free" is not "openly calling for murder".
interestingly the article claims (that tiemann claims that) g++ came out in 01987, making it the first native-code-generating c++ compiler, and http://www.edm2.com/index.php/Zortech_C%2B%2B says zortech c++ came out in 01988. did zortech c++ actually come out earlier than that? or, did g++ actually come out later than that?

if not, i think tiemann beat you by a bit there, though i agree that zortech was more influential throughout the 80s and 90s

https://gcc.gnu.org/releases.html says the first version of gcc to include g++ was 1.15.3 on 01987-12-18. unfortunately it doesn't seem to be preserved in https://ftp.gnu.org/old-gnu/gcc/ where the oldest version present is gcc 1.23 from 01988-06-26; possibly there's a comp.sources archive or something?
I never advocated for custody services. Those completely defeat the purpose. I always recommend people go self custody.
But isn’t that just an argument in favor of censorship?
Probably wouldn't even need 5 Million. According the the PBS article about the 2 US Navy sailors arrested for spying around august of last year one of them was apparently only bribed $10k-15K for the year [1]. I was pretty shocked at first but it made sense that with the financial stress many face in today's market a 10K bribe would go along way and have a high return on investment especially if the potential payoff for a backdoor or zero-day is in the millions [2]

[1] https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/2-u-s-navy-sailors-arr...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Market_for_zero-day_exploits
In my settings I applied Kyrgyz as my primary language and English as the second one: https://imgz.org/iCtBEEby.png

For some reason Google decides that I prefer Russian even if I am forcing it to use English (assuming that `?hl=en` switches the interface language):
https://imgz.org/i36byD3g.png
What would be on the other layers?
you seem to have every key you want to press already present.

One thing I would suggest is that if you can split the space bar, it’s soo much real estate for one key, even if you split into 4 keys with 2 keys being space.

I have a split space with shift mapped into one of the keys so I hold shift with my thumb much easier then pinky and makes touch typing flow better.
I was not aware that that the term cultural Marxism comes from a specific conspiracy theory from the 90s. I meant to say that some of these left wing social movements divide the entire world into an oppressor and an oppressed class the way you saw in the Chinese communist revolution for example, except not on economic lines (ie Marxism) but on race/identity lines which is why I said cultural Marxism but I should have been more careful with the terminology.
You seem super confident that there have been zero similar attacks that achieved their goals without detection. By definition, almost anyone who pulled off this kind of thing would try really hard not to burn that backdoor by being super obvious (for instance, using it to deface a website). We literally would not know anything about it, in all likelihood. Therefore I feel like it’s a lot more intellectually honest to say we have no idea if that has happened elsewhere, than it is to confidently proclaim that it certainly has not just because it’s been a month since xz.
> In USSR, nobody was rich.

Despite Soviet propaganda to the contrary, social class continued to exist in the USSR.

At the top of the class hierarchy, were senior party officials and their families.

Next rung down were university-educated professionals (doctors, engineers, scientists, etc)

Then came skilled factory workers, etc

Unskilled labourers were near the bottom of the Soviet class hierarchy
I had to go through your post history to see if you were some kind of gpt bot. That was quite impressive.
Apparently you do need a lesson in housing crises, because pre-2008, banks absolutely would lend 500k to a drug addict with part time minimum wage work. I worked in the industry post-crisis, and absolutely nothing had been fundamentally fixed: the same people who caused the housing crisis were given bonuses, and the attitude was roughly "how can we cut it as close as possible given these new regulations?".

The incentive of individuals within banks is to lend to as many people as you can, collect the bonuses that ensue, and if by some bad luck the loans fail before you get promoted, move on to the next job. If the loans fail systemically, then your entire bank gets bailed out, you still collect a bonus, and you don't even have to find a new job. There is no level at which there is any reasonable incentive to perform any of the "discrimination policy and process" you think exists: the only reason that happens at all is because of regulation, which is why I say that if the government can regulate it they can just do it without involving people trying to find loopholes. Sure, some banks lend responsibly, but sans regulation there would always be some bank willing to lend to anyone, which would fail every few years and get replaced with the next bank with the same problems.

And when the banks got bailed out, who took that risk? Instead of trying to reason about how you think things would work in your ideological model of the world, why not look at what has actually happened?

Oh and just to circle back to the original point: landlords are far better than lenders at filtering out drug addicts with part time minimum wage work, because they actually have incentives to protect their properties from destructive tenants or tenants who might not pay and be difficult to evict. So let's not pretend you're deeply concerned about the plight of the drug addicted part-time minimum wage worker. There are very few places in the US where full-time minimum wage pays rent (and those minimum wages got that high against the wishes of people like you). If someone on minimum wage lives in an apartment it's because of housing assistance, so again I wonder why you insist that landlords are a necessary middleman to government-provided housing.
The license is pretty straightforward and fills in the gaps where the others fail to protect OSS creators (leading to headaches like w/ Redis). Perhaps it's too idealistic to think people will just read it and see if it matches their needs?
The rest makes more sense if you assume parent post meant to write "read the code".
Very cool! Have been trying to complete murph workouts in prep for Memorial Day, and this app would be a perfect companion for counting the reps, which get pretty hard to track in your head during the workout. So, feature request - please add squat and pull up detection!
Top-of-the-Poops
It’s worse than that, and that wouldn’t be enough.

A large class of exploitation methods simply have no performance impact.
I've just checked and surprise, right now Nvidia is worth two times more than Meta.
Thank you I meant the first one, I did not know about the specific conspiracy theory.
To be fair, Kallasvuo did try to build a software environment for Nokia phones. The largely open source Maemo operating system failed to take off

This is not fair to say that, Maemo failure again result from bad decision at leadership level, Maemo was never given a chance with standard consumer headsets because Nokia was afraid of hitting their Symbian cash cow at this time...
Clicky https://www.printodos.com/
> "why, why, why do people put up with this absurdity

For all of Reacts faults, it's not particularly absurd to use in practice and ultimately there's only one frontend/client language to work with.
That doesn't help you figure out where to go to change the setting, unless you want to list all the available language options at the top of every single page.
In this case, "outreach" means [1]:

the extending of services or assistance beyond current or usual limits

| an outreach program

[1]: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/outreach#dictiona...
You have the right attitude and I really hope you're not an outlier.

As a push back ask them to raise an issue to request the interface. In the meantime fix the immediate problem only.
That's definitely not true, but thanks for the support :)
A question: I skimmed through MSFS and Xplane API docs but could not find a way to fetch full camera image. Does anyone know of a flight sim (except MS AirSim) which would allow that? Please?
Everyone else copies apples boxes now.

>windows has ads and malware built into the OS

windows "ads" are suggestions about what software to use, the same as mac has

>the charge you for os upgrades

not for either 11 or 10

> The laptop hardware doesn’t cut corners. Yes, it’s expensive, but everyone knows of its quality. in 5 years it still has value. Try and sell a 5 year old windows laptop.

you can find plenty on resellers at a considerable fraction of their original price, same as with mac hardware. obviously laptops that were cheap when they were sold don't fetch much.

> I pay more to not be the product, and to have privacy.

you pay for a fashion statement. nobodies blaming you for that, but lets be honest
Meta lost billions on Metaverse. And now spending on this with an unclear business model. Where do they get all this money from?
Even politicians are cheap these days.

It astonishes me that for less than the price of a nice car, what people seem to be able to do.
All kinds of funny math, gotta pretend it was all spent in 1 year, ignore that it's a fraction of what they spend in general so it sounds more shocking, and it's tracking to be gpt4 ish
The problem is that it’s not society becoming wealthier, it’s the top strata getting wealthier off the increased productivity of society as a whole.
I suspect that the bad actors aren't merely benefitting from this situation, they're probably actively encouraging it, in GitHub issue discussions, on Reddit, in the comment sections of YouTube videos, here on HN. Maybe I'm paranoid.
Hard to care. It's war. Is Haaretz or the Jerusalem Post available in Gaza?
Wow, this is an illuminating map.
Restores a bit of faith in Western values.
I don't consider there to be a difference.

A society in which the children of successful people are prioritised over the children of unsuccessful people is almost certain to lead to better outcomes for exactly the same reasons.

I came from an underprivileged background myself, if I were investing money with an aim to generating a return, I'd far sooner give it to a banker's son than someone from the estate I grew up on. I was the exception, not the rule, and the older I get the more I figure I must just be some sort of genetic freak, since the overwhelming opinion seems to be that our fate is predestined, nowadays.
How is it possible that even after spending so much, they still can't catch up to OpenAI? How is OpenAI so good?
Language is great and rich and all that but you forget too quickly that it's a two way street. Nothing gp said implied that they didn't know the idiom. Indeed, it seems obvious to me they were just being concise, which is perhaps a virtue of prose you could benefit from.